Business and entrepreneurship events

• Entrepreneurial Tactics: Corporate, tonight
• Social Media Women Drinks, tonight
• Lean Startup Project Managers, tonight
• Negotiation Techniques, Dec 12
• Explore the Digital Frontier, Dec 13
• Sydney Tech Startup Meetup, Dec 13
• Silicon Beach EOY Drinks, Dec 13
• Dave McClure/500 Startups, Dec 16
• Email Marketing That Sells, Dec 17
• Entrepreneur Xmas Party, Dec 17
• Startup Grind: Daniel Jarosch, Dec 18
• Young Entrepreneurs Drinks, Dec 19
• AGDA New Christmas Party, Dec 19
• Christmas #CoffeeMartinis, Dec 19
• BlueChilli Holiday Party, Dec 20
• Lane Cove Entrepreneurs, Jan 4
• CiviCon 2013, Feb 5-6

Cool jobs

• Digital Marketing Specialist, Sydney Theatre
• Senior Developer, Creative Licence Digital
• Government Relations, Amnesty International
• Community Manager, TCO 
• Designer, Practical Parenting Magazine

Must reads, link love

• Event Review: YOW! Keynote Mike Lee
• Event Review: 2013 Marketing Trends
• Call for Speakers: Agile Australia 2013
• The School of Life Launches in Oz
• Hannah's Curator Year in Review
• Innovation Bay Pitch Call-out
• Event Review: Women 2.0 PITCH NYC
• Networking Is For Losers
• Time To Abandon Facebook?
• Facebook Democracy is Dead
• Aggregation-only Is Just Info Vomit
• Mobile-first To Web-first
• The Best Interface Is No Interface
• Quit Twitter for a Month
• Internet Freedom vs Internet Restriction
• Innovation: Arguing, Not Brainstorming
• When Success is Born Out of Serendipity
• How Rejection Breeds Creativity
• School of Long-Term Thinking
• Twitter To Open Aus Office By 2013
• Questions To Ask Potential Co-founders
• Keep Bad Moods From Taking You Over
• Abandoned on Everest: Dead Bodies
• 4 Best Lego Ad Campaigns Ever

Featured job: Social Media Manager

Australia's fastest growing anti-poverty campaign, Live Below the Line, is looking for a social media manager. If you're keen to work at the cutting-edge of digital, apply here.

Featured course: Sydney Dev Camp

Want to be a programmer? Sydney Dev Camp teaches people how to code using RoR in a 10-week intensive training program. Apply now for Autumn 2013. Learning rocks!

Digital and tech events

• Girl Geek Meetup, tonight
• DAMA: Panel Discussion, tonight
• Joomla User Group Dinner, tonight
• IGDA: Xmas Beer & Pixels, tonight
• DevOps Sydney Meetup, tonight
• Rorosyd Meetup, tonight
• ScalaSyd Meetup, Dec 12
• Lean Coffee North Ryde, Dec 12
• WebBlast Xmas 2012, Dec 13
• uX Designer & Developer Meetup, Dec 17
• Choosing the Right Technology, Dec 18
• Sydney Python Hacknight, Dec 18
• Sydney SEO Meetup, Jan 3
• Sydney Testers New Year BBQ, Jan 4

Featured job: Social Media Strategist

PPR seeks a Senior Social Media Strategist to step into a national role and assist to lead the social media practice at PPR. Do not miss out on this opportunity to join their team.

Creative, design, green and culture events

• Think Act Change Drinks, tonight
• COFA Talks: Contemporary, Dec 12
• Design + Crime Conference, Dec 12-13
• Metro Screen Careers Info Night, Dec 13
• Creative Mornings Sydney, Dec 19
• Design Thinking Drinks, Dec 19

Featured newsletter: Hacker Newsletter

Get the best articles on technology, startups, programming, design, and more all in one email. All links are hand picked from Hacker News each week. Join 13,500+ others and subscribe.

Local profile: Lauren Anderson

Solange Francois interviews Lauren about her work with the collaborative consumption movement and who inspires her. More here.

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